Chapter 1725: Chapter 1725

You casually asked, "How much just for the pants?"

Turning your head to look again, Yao Shuilan staggered forward. Seeing this, you immediately wanted to catch up, but the shop owner hurriedly grabbed you, saying with a smile, "Seeing that you look so approachable, I’ll lower the price a bit, 130."

You clicked your tongue and said, "Forget it, I won’t haggle with you. Give me a jacket instead."

Saying this, you prepared to take money from your pocket, but the shop owner got anxious immediately: "That’s not right, you don’t buy things !"

Hearing this, you couldn’t help but laugh, "And you don’t sell things !"

"I..." The shop owner was momentarily speechless.

"Forget it, I’m not buying." Saying this, you quickly chased after her.

You followed Yao Shuilan back to Furong District, and it was only after seeing her enter the house that you covered your forehead and opened your own door.

You had breakfast outside—ten baskets of steamed buns, four bowls of soy milk—terrifying the people around you at the time; you ate quite a satisfying breakfast, so for lunch, you just casually stir-fried two dishes: one was scallion fried radish, and the other was tomato scrambled eggs. As you were preparing to dish out the second bowl of vegetables, you heard the sound of a woman’s sobbing again, realizing that it still came from across the way upon closer listening.

At first, you glanced a few times, didn’t see anyone, and paid little attention. But when serving the meal, you saw a back figure, a familiar back figure, Yao Shuilan!

At this moment, Yao Shuilan was lying on the stove, crying softly incessantly. That sound made you shiver all over.

You shook your head slightly and sighed: "Ah."

Some things, you knew you couldn’t help with.

However, this time, Yao Shuilan’s sobbing didn’t stop, causing you to keep the TV on all afternoon, trying to mask her cries with the sound of the TV.

Listening to this in the end, you couldn’t stand it anymore, and just as you were about to get up and knock on the door next door, the scumbag’s angry cursing came from the room across.

"Cry! Cry! All you do is cry! Are you mourning, damn it? I’m not dead yet!"

Yao Shuilan was still crying.

"Your damn mother should’ve been dead long ago! Her living is a curse on you! Forty thousand for surgery fees; even if you went out to sell a thousand times, it wouldn’t be enough for that amount!"

Yao Shuilan was still crying.

"Yao Shuilan, I’m telling you, if you cry again, I’ll really sell you!" Seeing Yao Shuilan persisting on the ground without getting up, the scumbag kicked her hard, yelling, "I can’t take it! I’ll get them to come buy you right now!"

Wearing just briefs, you opened the door directly with slippers on, and at this time, the main door of 503 across from you opened too. As usual, the scumbag wearing a military coat was about to walk out; seeing you, he hurriedly wanted to close the door, but you stopped him, "If you don’t want to replace another door, I suggest you rush to close it."

Seeing you, the scumbag became weak, instantly turning soft and sitting on the ground, fawning to you.

"Heh, heh, heh, brother, you’re really mighty; in such cold weather, you walk out looking so clean,"

"Stop talking nonsense with me, tell me what’s going on here? Your girlfriend cries day in and day out, while you keep yelling about selling her?"

"This..." With you saying this, the scumbag dared not speak anymore.

You walked up to the scumbag, looking down at him: "Kid, do you know how heavy the sentence for trafficking women could be?"

"At best, twenty years; at worst, execution!" New ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄhapters are published on 𝓷𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓵~𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕖~𝙣𝙚𝙩

"I, I, I, I’m not, not..."

"Enough! Go inside and speak slowly!"

With one step into the scumbag’s house, you originally thought his place would be messy but did not expect it to be unusually neat with no odor; instead, the scumbag sitting on the ground emitted a smell that made you nauseous.

Under your coercion, the scumbag finally revealed the truth.

It turned out, Yao Shuilan came from a rural area, a very remote rural area. Her father was a gambling addict, lazy and gluttonous; and her mother, who was initially in good health, always bore the entire family’s economic burden, both heavy and light household chores handled solely by her.

Yet, one day Yao Shuilan’s mother suddenly fell ill, and misfortune never comes singly; Yao Shuilan’s father was caught cheating at cards and had his leg broken, also owing a huge debt of sixty thousand yuan.

Through a friend’s introduction, Yao Shuilan’s father met someone specialized in matching city and rural marriages. Ultimately, Yao Shuilan’s father sold Yao Shuilan to the scumbag at a price of sixty thousand yuan.

Publicly, this sixty thousand yuan was the dowry the man gave, while Yao Shuilan’s father arranged a bill of sale for her, with the buyer being the scumbag.

Although these things can’t be publicly acknowledged, Yao Shuilan was inherently a meek rural girl, with only a middle school diploma; she could only live at the scumbag’s house, working diligently without complaints.

Shortly after the scumbag finished speaking, the crying sounds from the kitchen weakened. At this moment, you noticed Yao Shuilan quietly standing behind the door, looking at you and the scumbag sidelong.

Since things had come to this point, you knew that if you did not intervene now, Yao Shuilan could be ruined for life before long.

Upon hearing this term, the scumbag curled up immediately, like a ball.

"What, afraid I’ll snatch it?" Seeing the scumbag’s posture, you couldn’t help but feel amused, "Don’t worry, I don’t have much except money to burn; weren’t you just yelling about selling her? Why not sell her to me then, I’ll offer double her original price, one hundred and twenty thousand."

Hearing this, the scumbag sat up instantly, eyes wide open, asking, "Really?"

"Stop wasting time! Go get it; if I wanted to snatch it, could you stop me?"

With your eyes glaring at him, the scumbag hurriedly got up, rushed towards his room.

At this time, you glanced at Yao Shuilan; she shrinked back her head.

Soon, the scumbag returned with a sheet of rice paper but did not hand it to you directly, instead clutching it tightly to his chest.

Then you motioned to Yao Shuilan hiding in the kitchen: "You, come here for a moment."

Wondering why, yet Yao Shuilan came out as if responding to some kind of magic in your summoning.

She stood beside you, with her head lowered.

At this time, you reached behind, despite wearing only briefs, you still managed to pull out a bank card from them.

Handing the bank card to Yao Shuilan, you said, "This bank card is for my pocket money, there should be thirteen or fourteen thousand in it; withdraw the excess and give him the remaining one hundred and twenty thousand."